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NationalDemographic Lessons At HLAJulie Wiener | Feb 2, 2010Although Brooklyn’s Hebrew Language Academy Charter School is 60 percent white, rumors abound in the Jewish community that the school is overwhelmingly African-American and that it has attracted fewer Russian and Israeli Jewish families than anticipated. - Read More - Limbaugh, Foxman Row: Intolerance Run AmokGary Rosenblatt Editor And Publisher | Feb 2, 2010Does vocal support for Israel give public figures a pass on just about anything else they say? Case in point: A controversy that started Jan. 20 when popular conservative radio broadcaster Rush Limbaugh made a critical comment about Wall Street bankers, apparently linking them with Jews, escalated the next day when Anti-Defamation League National Director Abraham Foxman issued a press release calling on Limbaugh to apologize and asserting that the media personality “reached a new low with his borderline anti-Semitic comments about Jews as bankers, their supposed influence on Wall Street, and how they vote.”... - Read More - NEW: Tefillin Plane Incident Sparking Interest In 'World Wide Wrap' EventStewart Ain Staff Writer | Feb 2, 2010The event began when some professors at the Conservative movement's Jewish Theological Seminary made a video about tefillin and how to wear the ritual object. - Read More - More National News |
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